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  • 16 May 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Jared Curhan, MIT Sloan School of Management

  • Fall 2021
  • Article

When to Go and How to Go? Founder and Leader Transitions in Private Equity Firms

By: Josh Lerner and Diana Noble
Leadership transition in private equity firms is an understudied field, despite the important, albeit controversial, role such firms play in developed economies. We analyzed 260 firms in an empirical study, supplemented by qualitative interviews with a small sample of... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Transition; Private Equity; Leadership; Management Succession; Analysis
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    Measuring Impact, Report of the Impact Measurement Working Group, Social Impact Investing Task Force established by the G8

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    • Fall 2024
    • Article

    Redemption Mechanisms in Poison Pills: Evidence on Pill Design and Law Firm Effects

    By: Olivier Baum and Guhan Subramanian
    We present the first evidence on the incidence of “trip wire” versus “last look” poison pills. Using a hand-collected data set of 130 poison pills implemented and/or amended between January 1, 2020 and March 31, 2023, we find that pills are almost evenly divided... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Negotiation Tactics; Contracts
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    • August 2015 (Revised June 2021)
    • Case

    Amazon.com, 2021

    By: John R. Wells, Benjamin Weinstock, Gabriel Ellsworth and Galen Danskin
    In February 2021, Amazon announced 2020 operating profits of $22,899 million, up from $2,233 million in 2015, on sales of $386 billion, up from $107 billion five years earlier (see Exhibit 1). The shareholders expressed their satisfaction (see Exhibit 2), but not all... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Analysis; Retail; E-commerce; Amazon; Internet; Amazon.com; AmazonFresh; Jeff Bezos; Cloud Computing; Marketplaces; Streaming; E-reader Market; Digital Media; Mobile App; Online Retail; Shipping; Database; Tablet; Kindle; Kindle Fire; Smartphone; Delivery; Digital Platforms; Competition; Internet and the Web; Corporate Strategy; Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Profit; Revenue; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Business History; Human Resources; Resignation and Termination; Books; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product Development; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Public Ownership; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Price; Applications and Software; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Working Capital; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Retail Industry; Advertising Industry; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Music Industry; Publishing Industry; Shipping Industry; Technology Industry; Video Game Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle
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    • 27 Oct 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: October 27

    and affiliated physicians. Over the last two decades, through a combination of active legal defense and medical error prevention, the RMF has successfully controlled the medico-legal costs of physicians practicing at the Harvard teaching... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Program

    Succeeding as a Strategic CFO

    decision-making skills Review and practice applying frameworks and tools of value-based management Learn about financial policies and practices used by other organizations and determine which ones View Details
    • Web

    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    podcasts is too often simplistic and superficial. It fails (!) to make the crucial distinctions that separate good failure from bad, resulting in difficulties for best practices to take hold in most... View Details
    • 20 Nov 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

    communities we see a vast degree of openness in which everybody can participate, but also the practice of broadcasting your work to everybody else. People continually broadcast their problems, others broadcast solutions, and the person... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • Program

    Senior Executive Program—Africa

    module, an independent work module, and an in-person module on the HBS campus, this program enables rapidly growing organizations to drive business momentum through more effective leadership. By gaining deeper insight into the best View Details
    • Web

    The Value Chain - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    embedded, are the basic units of competitive advantage. set of choices Strategy is reflected in the set of choices about how the activities in the value chain are configured and linked together. The Value Chain Best View Details
    • 02 Jan 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

    considered exemplary policies and practices by government. By looking more closely, however, Porter, Takeuchi, and Sakakibara also began to discover what they call "another Japan." While the country did boast a number of strong... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
    • 22 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 22

      Working PapersMixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical price competition, we allow firms... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • February 2018
    • Article

    Retention Futility: Targeting High-Risk Customers Might Be Ineffective.

    By: Eva Ascarza
    Companies in a variety of sectors are increasingly managing customer churn proactively, generally by detecting customers at the highest risk of churning and targeting retention efforts towards them. While there is a vast literature on developing churn prediction models... View Details
    Keywords: Retention/churn; Proactive Churn Management; Field Experiments; Heterogeneous Treatment Effect; Machine Learning; Customer Relationship Management; Risk Management
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    • November 2009
    • Article

    Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?

    By: Robert C. Pozen
    When the credit markets seized up in 2008, many heaped blame on "mark to market" accounting rules, which require banks to write down their troubled assets to the prices they'd fetch if sold on the open market - at the time, next to nothing. Recording those assets below... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Crisis Management; Standards; Banking Industry
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    • 10 Jul 2023
    • In Practice

    The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

    generally refers to spiritual dryness, or profound loneliness and doubt. The best social science indicates that across the globe, our communities are becoming lonelier and less fulfilled. John of the Cross teaches how to find deep meaning... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 07 Jun 2004
    • What Do You Think?

    How Important are Big Ideas?

    in a world where patents can be practically replicated through careful innovation. On a third front, however, Thomas Davenport and Laurence Prusak argue in What's the Big Idea? that the successful implementation of management concepts can... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Program

    Risk Management for Corporate Leaders—Virtual

    innovative strategies by better identification and mitigation of the attendant risks. This program is eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More Key Benefits In this live online course, you will examine the latest research and View Details
    • 28 Apr 2023
    • Blog Post

    Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life

    If your company is actively asking the question “How can we best support our LGBTQ+ employees?” then you are already part of this important conversation. But it’s important to directly answer this question with concrete steps you can take... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 03 Aug 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: August 3

    entrepreneurship researchers.   Working PapersSpeaking Up Constructively: Managerial Practices That Elicit Solutions from Front-line Employees Authors:Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ideas that could... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace